A German court has found a Syrian refugee guilty of attempting to defraud Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a court spokeswoman said on Monday (Aug 14), granting legal protection to a group viewed as terrorists by the European Union.

This lengthy story in Germany’s Spiegel Online about the Islamic jihadist who recently went on a stabbing spree in a supermarket in Hamburg attempts to show how his “transformation highlights a growing problem among refugees in the country: mental illness.”

A court in Hanover in the state of Lower Saxony affirmed in June the German armed forces’ decision to discharge a soldier because of his rejection of Israel’s right to exist and support for the US- and EU-classified terrorist organization Hamas.

Despite the “Cool am Pool” program, Muslim youths cause problems at Neukölln public pool. They were fighting and tried to storm the diving board platform. The pool had to be shut down. Police were called but no arrests. And the authorities can’t seem to understand why the local imam can’t stop the violence.